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A successful season for the Wisconsin football program is often characterized by reaching double-digit wins and playing in a New Year’s Six bowl game.
They most recently did it in 2019, finishing the season 10-4 and narrowly following to Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
2021 is a new chapter, and 247Sports.com sees the Badgers returning to their winning ways.
In their most recent bowl projection, Wisconsin squares off with Oregon yet again in the granddaddy of them all: the Rose Bowl.
Preseason College Football Playoff, bowl projections https://t.co/uuo6HCKaoP via @247sports #Badgers
— Evan Flood (@Evan_Flood) August 9, 2021
Here’s what 247Sports’ Brad Crawford had to say about the potential matchup:
Let’s run this one back, a rematch of the Jan. 1, 2020 game that was narrowly won by the Ducks (28-27). That was an epic battle in Pasadena between two elites and didn’t disappoint. Oregon is once again the preseason Pac-12 favorite out West while most are projecting the Badgers to finish second to Ohio State in the Big Ten. Kayvon Thibodeaux for the Ducks is a national player of the year candidate off the edge and could be a top-five NFL Draft selection next April. Wisconsin anxiously awaits the opportunity to turn the page on, by program standards, a lackluster finish last fall.
For myself and every Badger fan out there, I feel safe saying this conclusion would be an overwhelming positive for Graham Mertz, Paul Chryst and the 2021 Wisconsin Badgers. While a Big Ten title is the goal, a shot at winning the team’s first Rose Bowl in two decades would be a welcome consolation prize.
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